Agile Trend Analysis-2020

Muhammed Şimşek
3 min readJun 3, 2020

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In today’s competitive market, individuals, organizations and companies started to show more interest in Agile approaches, methodologies, techniques and tools to respond to the market rapidly than ever.

In order to catch up with this trend, digital.ai company publishes the State Of Agile Report every year with more than 1000 participants in different sectors, roles and locations. The trend analysis in this article has emerged by comparing the State of Agile’s 2019 and 2020 reports.

In this article, I will present the 2019 and 2020 reports comparatively. I will not explain too much. The numbers will indicate the trend :)

Contents:

This report consists of the following comparisons;

1. Respondents demographic,

2. Company experience and adoption,

3. Benefits of agile,

4. Agile methods and practices,

5. Agile success and metrics,

6. Scaling agile,

7. Agile project management tools,

8. Devops & value stream management

Let’s have a deep dive!

1.RESPONDENTS DEMOGRAPHIC

Respondents who worked for organizations with:
Respondents worked for organizations with teams responsible for planning, developing, testing and delivering software with:
Respondents were from:
Respondents came from role of:
Industries respondents worked in:

2.COMPANY EXPERIENCE AND ADOPTION

The length of time respondents’ organizations have been practicing Agile development methods:
Agile Teams Percentages are increasing
Ability to manage changing priorities!
Teams are maturing day-by-day!

3.BENEFITS OF AGILE

*Respondents were able to make multiple selections

4.AGILE METHODS AND PRACTICES

Scrum and related variants continue to be the most common Agile methodologies used by respondents’ organizations.
*Respondents were able to make multiple selections
*Respondents were able to make multiple selections. Retrospectives and Kanban :)
*Respondents were able to make multiple selections. Agile without engineering practices means nothing!

5.AGILE SUCCESS AND METRICS

*Respondents were able to make multiple selections and some options wasn’t measured in 2019

6.SCALING AGILE

The Scaled Agile Framework® continues to be the most popular scaling method cited by respondents
*Respondents were able to make multiple selections

7.AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS

8.DEVOPS & VALUE STREAM MANAGEMENT

*Respondants might have multiple answers
*There was no data in 2019 report to compare with 2020

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